Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

reminder to not reply to a post or dm someone just saying "hi" because that i very much interpret that as trying to trap someone into a situation, if you're gonna talk to me and i don't know you please state your intentions with your introductory "hi"

*Superb* thread here in which @shauna posts her notes from reading Jessie Singer’s book “There Are No Accidents”

It’s about how corporate interests create dangerous/lethal products — from automobiles to addictive medicines and more — then capture the regulators, so that reasonable precautions around their use are tossed out …

… then, when people are injured or killed, they say, “whoops just an accident”

Read the whole thread!

https://social.coop/@shauna/110187830523238194

She may have been born in winter, but she's no winter #cat. I think she hasn't been outside for a month now. She will sit in the windows, but when given the opportunity to go out she couldn't care less.

#Caturday #CatsOfTheFediverse #CatsOfMastodon

He pushed this box to the heater.

#caturday #blackCats

Molly Crabapple, artist and activist:

You know what would be nice?

An "open firmware" project, where people produce and share FOSS firmware for common household devices, replacing the manufacturer's firmware with a decrapified version.

A smart TV? Reflash it with FOSS firmware, which removes tracking, calls to the manufacturer's servers, and any Internet-connected services that you don't want?

A printer? It's now yours. No ink subscription, or need for an app to print remotely.

And so on.

A man can dream, eh.

there is not a wall more impenetrable than the one separating people's minds from realizing that the world doesn't have to be full of torment to be full of meaning

Whaaa I got stuck in a scanner!

It'd be okay if people let us actually live, or even SHARE how FUCKING SCARED this bullshit makes us feel.

But no. Whenever we do go "oh, hey folks, this is kinda scary" we're told to shut up or to stop being political.

I'm not going to lie. I'm not okay.
#LGBTQ

They want us dead. They want us dead and everyone who says "Oh, it's not so bad," or “you're just overreacting" is aiding this kind of abhorrent infringement on the rights of #LGBTQ people to exist.

I... am not sure what my future looks like. I cna't return to the UK. I can just hope that Oregon doesn't throw people like me under the bus.

🥗 TIPS TO "NOT GET SICK" AT CONS 🩺
*because ANE is during a heavy respiratory illness season

1️⃣ Wash hands/use hand sanitizer frequently
2️⃣ Eat! 🍣 🍕
3️⃣ Sleep 💤
4️⃣ Mask up in public spaces (inside and outside the con space)
5️⃣ Listen to your body - if you feel sick, take proper precautions

It's incredible how much space is given to a few people in motor vehicles vs so many more people on foot or wheels. It's a vast inequity.

Nowhere is this more stark than #ShibuyaCrossing; the world's busiest pedestrian crossing with as many as 3,000 people crossing at a time. Compared to around 12 cars fromone direction of the junction in one sequence. #Urbanism #CitiesForPeople

this is tomorrow!!!!! a furry rave at freeway park

#seattle

One thing I love so much about Mastodon is that you can just right click to copy any link and it just works as god intended. Almost all other social media sites hijack links with their trackers or make copying a pain in other ways